News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Croatia welcomes start of membership talks with EU
Publishing date: 6 October 2005
ZAGREB, 6 October 2005- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia has offered his congratulations to the Republic of Croatia on the start of membership talks with the European Union (EU). Speaking at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the...
OSCE media watchdog protests closure of independent Belarus daily Narodnaya Volya
Publishing date: 30 September 2005
VIENNA, 30 September 2005- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, sent a request to senior Belarus officials urging them not to close down the daily Narodnaya Volya. The only independent daily in Belarus...
OSCE media freedom watchdog calls for amendments to the media law in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 28 September 2005
VIENNA, 28 September 2005- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has sent a legal review of the draft media law of Kazakhstan to the Congress of Journalists of this Central Asian Republic.
OSCE police assistance programme helps set up emergency response call centre in Bishkek
Publishing date: 19 September 2005
BISHKEK, 19 September 2005- A new call Centre, designed to ensure efficient and effective police response to emergency assistance requests from citizens, opened today in Bishkek. Funded by the OSCE Police Assistance Programme...
OSCE Academy supports establishment of Central Asian Applied Research Network
Publishing date: 15 September 2005
VIENNA/BISHKEK, 15 September 2005- The establishment of a Central Asian Applied Research Network was the focus of a regional meeting today in Bishkek organized by the OSCE Academy and the Eurasia Foundation, with the support of the OSCE Centre...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office offers expertise to partner states at Mediterranean Seminar
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
RABAT, Morocco, 8 September 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, expressed strong support for the OSCE's activities with adjacent regions in his keynote address at the 11th OSCE Mediterranean Partners Seminar...
Office of OSCE media freedom representative trains journalists and press officers in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
SARYOY, KYRGYZSTAN, 8 September 2005- Strengthening relations between State authorities and the media and increasing the access of civil society to official information was the aim of a training course organized in Kyrgyzstan by...